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Hello Readers! So glad to be back. I cannot tell you how close I was to dying of boredom before I left. I am on my third day in Santiago, it is 9 40 in the moring so I will probably have to safe this and leave soon because I have to be at the hotel a las 10 for more orientación. Let me get you up to speed. The airplane ride was awful, it was like i was stuck in limbo, couldnt fall asleep. but perk is I sat next to a chilena and talking to her made me feel less nerviosa. I arrive finally and I am going through customs and show the guy my visa and hes like i need the two pieces of paper with your picture on it (i remembered getting my visa back and being like whats these? and then putting them somewhere turns out in my checked bag...) so a little stressful but not really at all.

Then the CIEE grupo was actualmente there to meet me. sorry about the spanglish ive been speaking/thining todos los dias en espanol entonces ustedes van a aprender un poquito de espanol. i Should probably be writing this whole thing in spanish. Therefore (por eso) no going to write as frequent bc i want to always be writing in spanish!

So a lot has happened, even more bc i didnt have to save this.

Ok: orientacion...there are almost 40 peeps in my program. MUCHISIMA GENTE. lotta people. ummm most are really nice, theres thing grup thats kind of like ooh i know ppl from my school already and im too cool/stylish/from la for you. kinda irritante. but whateves im gonna have amigos chilenos. So then we had this charla (chat) about all these stuff and it really stressed me out (this is the second day now) and then we were going to meet our familia chilena. So, we are all waiting down outside the hotel and i see this family and there is this little boy with flowers and a mom and a girl and i was like aww look at them, i wish they were my family! and then the mom was like kali? and i was like OMG YES. I LOVE MY FAMILY SOOOOO MUCH. its so great. okay: i have two hermanitos (little brothers) one is 11 and he loves me bc i love soccer and we are so cute and today we played futbol in the parque and hes so cute. the other is 14 and is more reserved bc you know hes in puberty but hes super nice too. THEN i have an hermana!! she is basically my age, 18 and is about to start her first year at the univeristy. i just got back from carreteando con ella (partying with her). met all her friends. chilean spanish is SUPER hard guys its no joke. holy crap. Like, if i came here first without going to the DR i would have been sooooo screwed. all the words are really unique to just this country bc its so isolated (mountains on one side, coast en la otra) ive already learned so many new words.

ok i cant write anymore bc i am bien cansada (reaaaally tired i woke up really early today for stupid orientaion) but hopefully i can write more tomorrow, but my power converter doesnt work with my computer charger bc it only has two holes and my thing has 3 prongs, get it? ahhh i know this is really desorganized but im just really excited and have way more to tell that yeah its ending up a mush. oook love ya!